Over the weekend I updated my Ubuntu machine from 7.10 to the brand new 8.04 release. I waited a few days after the official release to see if I heard any reports of upgrade problems.
I searched and searched and really didn’t find that many written reports of people that had updated their machines, most prefered [...]

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The ever so popular and handy Long Term support 8.04 versions of Ubuntu, Kubuntu, and Xubuntu are out. The star of the show, Ubuntu has quite a nice set of new features, including:

A windows based Ubuntu installer, so you don’t have to go through creating and managing partitions;
New out-of-the-box programs such as Transmission (for BitTorrents), [...]

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This is the second of a sequence of posts where we’ll take a look at a few of the main Linux distros to find out which are the most welcoming to Linux newbies. In our first article of this series, we took a look at Fedora 9 Beta.
We’ll do this test with the live (Gnome) [...]

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SystemRescueCd is an awesome computer saviour. This Linux bootable CD is packed with utilities for you to recover or organize better your machine. With it you can:

partition (or edit partitions of) your HD;
save and restore data from different partitions;
restore a bootloader;
backup and archive data;
run a virus scan;
and wipe out safely your HD.

A very handy bootable [...]

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This is the first of a sequence of posts where we’ll take a look at a few of the main Linux distros to find out which are the most welcoming to Linux newbies.
We’ll do this test with the live (Gnome) CD to analyze: parts of the hardware that are recognized, software package installed, general [...]

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Before installing my Linux distro I did some pretty lengthy research on partitions. This was a concern for me since I was not doing a fresh install, but installing Linux right beside Windows with a dual boot installation.
If you want to have your entire computer Linux-only, you will not have much to worry, the automatic [...]

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So far we’ve covered open source programs you can run on your computer. Most often they’re safer, lighter, and able to have you get the task done just as easily as proprietary equivalents.
Now, we’ll take it to the next level and talk about entire operating systems you can use on your machine. With an open [...]

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